Results 12,981-13,000 of 50,151 for speaker:Micheál Martin
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: How is she going to double housing output? She keeps using slogans that she articulates from time to time but there is no meat behind it.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: There is no flesh on the bone. There is no reality behind what she is saying. The Deputy can wave all she likes but it does not hide the truth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising this very important issue. In the first instance, along with the Deputy and in the clearest possible terms, I want to condemn Russia's aggression towards its neighbour. It is unilaterally, without any justification whatsoever, threatening and undermining the integrity of an independent democratic state, and this is unacceptable. I agree with the Deputy and I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for what he said. We will work with the Whips through the Business Committee or otherwise to consider the motion. We support the idea of a cross-party motion condemning Russia's actions. Yesterday, I met with the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who made a significant announcement in regard to Nord Stream. The approach all along by the European Union has been to work in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue of housing, because I have repeatedly said that, in my view, housing is the single most urgent and important social issue facing our country at this point in time. Access to housing is fundamental to our security, stability, health and progress as a society. If we do not recognise the scale of the challenge and respond in kind, then this has the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It goes back beyond that, and the Deputy's party keeps saying no. It always has an excuse and a reason to say this project cannot go ahead and so on.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The crisis is so big that we need to get on with it in terms of allowing projects and rezonings to happen. The scale of the house building that must occur means the rezoning of brownfield sites. Let us be clear about that. It is not going to be possible to get 20,000 or 30,000 units per year if we do not do that. We need cities to grow in a compact way where services already exist. All...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It will mean the disposal of property. Councils will have to dispose of lands-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----to enable housing to happen. Old industrial sites in cities will have to be rezoned for housing. If councils have land, they should dispose of it to ensure that housing happens-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: To get housing built, and perhaps in partnership, as we are doing in some places across the country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The context here is very clear. We need to build houses at a far greater scale than we have been in recent years and we must do it quickly.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: No one party can say, "It is our way or the highway, or that you do it in accordance with our ideological framework or not at all." That has been the nature of the Deputy's party's position for a considerable time. The Housing for All strategy is ambitious and has a strong delivery mechanism to get houses built. We need to get to 33,000 houses per year, with a mix of social, private,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The Deputy used the word "corrupt".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin is the last party to talk to anybody about corruption.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: Deputy McDonald's party corrupted public life in this republic for well-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----on 40 years to a far greater degree than any other party in this country.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It corrupted the moral code of our country and society by the murder and mayhem that it perpetrated, and that it still endorses.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: It still supports the narrative of murder, mayhem and so forth.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: The party also supports the undermining of women-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Micheál Martin: -----who were raped by IRA volunteers-----